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Board of
Scrutiny

 

Noon, Thursday 28 October 2004

 

 

New SCR, Selwyn
College

 

Present: Stephen Cowley, Margaret Glendenning,
John Little, Timothy Milner, Saskia Murk-Jansen, David Phillipson, Nick Pyper,
Jennifer Rigby, John Spencer (Chairman), Helen Thompson (Secretary)

 

In attendance: Tessa Payne

 

 

1.      Apologies

Nicholas Holmes                       

 

2.      Minutes
of previous meeting

Agreed

 

3.      Matters
arising

It was noted that Margaret Glendenning should be recorded as
present (not as in attendance) at the meeting held on 30 September, as her
election had been with 
effect
from 15 July 2004.

 

It was agreed that the Chairman would continue negotiations
with Susan Bowring regarding the filling of the vacancy on the Board – this is
expected to be early in the 
Lent
term.

 

4.      Ninth
Report - Discussion

It was agreed that the comments made regarding the Ninth
Report at the Discussion on 26 October would be considered in conjunction with
the detailed response from the Council, and that any response would be made in
the Tenth Report.

 

It was agreed that in future it would be appropriate for the
Board to be more aware of any central committees on which its members sat, and
potential conflicts of interest that might arise, particularly in relation to
those committees that could be criticised.   

 

5.      Visit
to Director of Personnel

It was noted that the visit to the Director of Personnel
will take place on Monday 1 November from 14.15 – 15.30hrs. 

 

It was noted that the original reasons for proposing the
introduction of HERA across the University were entirely valid (namely to
enable the University to reward staff appropriately, to enable it to compete in
the global market, and to provide a robust pay and grading structure), and that
the concerns of the Board related to the methodology employed, not to HERA itself.

 

Concerns were also voiced that cost of poor implementation
could be considerably greater than the potential financial penalty for missing
the deadline for HERA’s introduction within the University.

 

It was agreed that Stephen Cowley would circulate a paper
identifying the issues that might be raised at the meeting, and would
co-ordinate the responses.

 

6.      Progress
to Board response on HERA etc

It was agreed that further work would take place on the
Board’s response to HERA following the meeting with the Director of Personnel.

 

7.      Request
to Secretary to review Board of Graduate Studies

The Board considered the correspondence received by the
Secretary voicing concerns about the process of allocating graduate students to
colleges, and the time taken by various trusts to confirm funding to graduate
students.

 

It was agreed that a meeting with the Board of Graduate
Studies should be requested, and that the Secretary would reply to the
correspondent advising them of this, but also indicating that the Board are
unlikely to be able to assist to any great extent with the concerns raised
regarding student funding.

 

8.      Dates
and places of future meetings

The next meeting will be held at noon in the New SCR on
Thursday 11 November unless otherwise advised.

 

The Chairman advised the meeting that during the Lent Term he would be unable to attend meetings of the Board on
Thursdays due to prior commitments. It was agreed that the options of either
changing the day the Board meetings were held, or appointing an alternate Chairman
for the term would be discussed at the next meeting.

 

9.      Any
other business

There was no other business.